 | - Book Title: KGB : The Inside Story of Its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev
- Author: Christopher Andrew, Oleg Gordievsky
- ISBN: 0340485612
- Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
- Year Published: 19 October, 1990
- Our Price: £18.15 GBP ($33.21 USD)
- Description: Hodder and Stoughton, 1990, First edition: hardcover in dust jacket : 703 pages: black and white photographic illustrations : maps to end papers.Synopsis: An authoritative history of the world's largest intelligence service, from its origins after the Russian Revolution to the Gorbachev era, using material compiled from National archives. The book reveals the solution to some of the mysteries of modern intelligence history, including the identity of the British fifth man, the Soviet spy codenamed Eddie( previously misidentified as Sir Roger Hollis) the Soviet spy codenamed Elli, and the men considered by the KGB to be its most important agents in the United States and Europe. It describes RYAN, the KGB operation based on the Kremlin's fear in the early 1980's of a surprise nuclear strike by the West; and the KGB operations against Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, and the European Community; the war in Afghanistan; the destruction of the Korean airlines flight 007; the killing of WPC Fletcher; the relationship of the Soviet Union to Fidel Castro; Bulgarian assassination squads; Gorbachev's relations with the KGB; and the disintegration of the Soviet block. The author, Christopher Andrew is a Cambridge historian and presenter of historical documentaries on television. The co- author Oleg Gordievsky, former KGB colonel and resident designate in London at the time of his escape from the Soviet Union in 1985, had worked for British intelligence as the penetration agent inside the KGB from 1974, and was responsible for preparing a highly classified KGB history of its operations in Britain and other Western Countries. Condition: small repair to upper edge dust jacket: : overall very clean and good
- Condition: Collectable- Very Good
- Dustcover: Yes
- Binding: Hardback
- Type: Used Books
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